Motor-control system



May 15; 1923. 1,454,867

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AiTORNEY Patented May 15, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM R. TALIAFEBRO, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB TO WESTING- HOUSE ELECTRIC ANI) MANUFACTURING COI dPf kNY, A CORPORATION OF PENN- sYLvANIn.

Application filed August 18, 1921.

To all :wlwm may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLiAM R. TALLA- rnnno, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented ,a new and useful Improvement in h/[otor-Control Systems, of which the followin is a specification.

My invention relates to motor-control systems and it has particular relation to con t-rol systems for governing the operation of the driving motors of a railway vehicle.

One object of my invention is to provide a control system that shall be relatively simple and economical in, construction and positive and reliable in operation.

Another object of my invention is to provide a relatively large number of acceleration steps although employing but relatively few switches. p

A further object of my invention is to provide an improved method of interconnecting the field-magnet windings of a motor.

heretofore, the series of field-magnetwindings of railway motors have been provided with a plurality oftaps to permit deenergization of a portion of the windings. thereby increasing the speed of the motors. According to my invention, however, 1 provide two separate series field-magnet windings for a motor, one of the windings being initially employed-to increase the magnetization of the motor and later to oppose the other winding to decrease such magnetiza' tion.

Briefly speaking, my invention consists in providing a motor with a relatively large series fielda'nagnet winding and a relatively small series fieldanagnet winding and so winding them upon the poles of the ma chine that, when the smaller field-magnet winding is energized in one direction, it will increase the magnetization of the motor and when it is energized in the other direction it will oppose the larger field-magnet winding, thereby reducing the effective magnetization of the motor.

For a better understanding of my invention, reference may be made to the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 of which is a diagrammatic view of a motor and a control system therefor embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 .is a diagrammatic view of the MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM.

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windings of the Imotor that is illustrated in Fig. 1; and

Fig. is a sequence chart showing the preferred order of closure of the switches that are illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

Referring particularly to Fig. 1, the motor 1, having an armature 2 and series fieldniagnet windings 5 and t, is energized from a suitable source of electrical energy, such, for example, as a trolley conductor 5 and a return circuit marked Grounchlupon the closure of the line switch or circuit-breaker -(3 and certain of a plurality of contactors 8 to 11 inclusive, in a .manner hereinafter more fully described. A resistor 13 is connected in circuit between the line switch 6 and the armature 2 of the motor 1. It is shunted upon the closure of contactor (not illustrated).

lxeferring to Fig. 2 of the drawing, the armature 2 of the motor 1 .is preferably of standard design and it has been illustrated only diagrammatically, as it is of a construction well known in the art.

The series-field magnet windings 3 and l are so interwound upon a plurality of polepieces (not shown) of a suitable stator that the magnetization of the winding at. may assist or oppose the magnetization that is es tablished upon the energization of the ser'es-ficld-magnet winding 3, depending upon the relative direction ofenergization of the windings 3 and The motor 1 may be accelerated by first closing switches 6, 8 and 9, in accordance with position a of the sequence chart, thereby establishing a circuit from the trolley 5 through line switch 6, armature 2- 'of the motor 1, series field-magnet winding 3, switch 8, series field-magnet winding 4 and switch 9 to Ground.

When the above circuit is established. the series field-magnet windings 3 and 1 are cuniulatively enc ized, as indicated by the solid arrows in Fig. 2 of the drawing. Since the series field-magnet winding at is energized in the direction whereby its magnetization assists the magnetization caused by energization of the series fieldmagnet winding 8, the motor 1 is operating under full-field conditions.

After the resistor 13 has been shunted and the speed of the motor 1 is suflicient to permit further accelerating steps, the switch 10 may be closed, thereby shunting the series field-magnet winding 4. This operation will increase the speed of the motor 1, as it is then operated with only the field-magnet winding, 3 energized. After the switch 10 has closed, the switch 8 may be opened to interrupt the original interconnections of the field-windings 3 and 4.

After the motor 1 has attained a predetermined speed, the switch 11 may be closed and the switch 9 opened, thereby causing the magnetization of the series field-magnet winding 4 to oppose that of the seriesfieldi magnet winding 3.

The motor is accelerated further by closing switches 8 and 9 and then opening switches 10 and 11, therebyreversing the energization ot' field-magnet winding 4. The field-magnet winding 3 is shunted by the closure of switch 12. (See ste d of the sequence chart illustrated in Big. 3.) The switch 8 is then opened to disconnect the winding 3 from the control system. After such operation of switches 8 to 12, inclusive,

the motor 1 is operating with only the fieldmagnet winding 4. energized. The motor 1 will now accelerate to its maximum speed, as it is operating with its weakest magnetic field strength.

It will be apparent that a number of motors may be governed by a control system, in the same manner as has been described for a single motor. The windings may be so connected that the magnetization of one will oppose the other, when the motors are connected in series relation, with the starting resistor shunted and again after the motors have been connected in parallel relation and the starting resistor shunted.

One of the advanta es of this method of acceleration is that w en the switches 8 to 11, inclusive, are closed in the order shown by the sequence chart, it is unnecessary to momentarily open the armature circuit of the motor, which has been required in some systems of the prior art.

While I, have shown my invention in the preferred form, it is apparent that various modifications may be made in the arrangement of windings and switches without departing from the spirit of my invention. I desire, therefore, to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims 1 claim as my invention:

1. In a dynamo-electric machine having an armature and a plurality of field-magnet windings, of means for connecting said having two series of field-maqpet yindings that comprises connecting sai winding, in series relation, energizing one of said wind; ings in the opposite direction, re-energizing said winding in the original direction, and then de-energizing the other of said windings.

4. The method of accelerating a motor having a large and a small series field-magnet winding that comprises connecting the smaller of said windings in series relation to said larger windings, shunting said smaller winding, reversing the energ zation of said smaller winding, re-energizing said smaller winding in its original direction then de'energizing said larger winding.

5. In a control system, the combination with an armature and two field-magnet windings, of a switch for connecting a terminal of one of said windings to a terminal of the other winding, a second switch for connecting the other terminal of one of said. windings to the other terminal of the other winding, and a plurality of switches for connecting the terminals of one of said windings to the supply circuit.

6. In a control system, the combination with an armature and a plurality of fieldmagnet windings, of one switch for connecting the terminal of one of said windings to the terminal of another of said windings,- a

second switch for connecting the other terminal of one of said windings to the other terminal of the other of said windings, a plurality of switches for connecting one of said windings to the sup ly circuit and a switch for connecting sait armature to one of the terminals of one of said windings.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 9th day of August 1921.

WILLIAM R. TALIAFERRO.

Certificate of Correction,

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,:25 l,867, granted May 15, 1923, upon the application of William R. Taliaterrm of Pittsbin'gh, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Motor-Control Systems, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1. line 2st and page 2 line 74, claim 3, strike out the Word of and that the said Letters Patent should he read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed andsealed this 19th day of June, A. 1)., 1923.

[SEAL] WM. A. KINNAN,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. l,45 l,867, granted May 15, 1923, upon the application of l/Villiam R. Taliaferro of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Motor-Control Systems, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 5%, and page 2-, line 74:, claim 3, strike out the Word of; and that the said Letters Patent should *be read with these corrections therein thatthe same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed andsealed this 19th day of June, A. D., 1923.

[SEALt] WM. A. KINNAN,

Acting Oomom'ssz'oner of Patents. 

